Off the mountain

11:42

Some people should die
that's just unconscious knowledge
-Jane's Addiction

I'm going to have to look for a new apartment for next year. Chema is disgusting, lazy and refuses to pull up his pants so that all of us who frequent here are forced to see his ginormous ass crack everyday. It's happened in front of Laura and Bo, and most offensively, me. And i'm not talking a coin slot - I mean you could fit more than one Kennedy silver dollar in that godless thing.

may the road rise to meet you
but not slam you in the nuts
- New Jersey, Irish/American Traditional

i already mentioned how the exit pipe in the bathroom backed-up and flooded twice last week. I left my room to go pee on Sunday and i tripped. The ground had risen to meet me! There was a huge bump in the floor panelling. It was like a speed bump. "Somebody paint that yellow!" I cried to an empty flat.

Then Anita saw it when she came in. At first Chema was ignoring her concern until i chimed in. It obviously warped when it flooded, which was avoidable if Chema had just gotten someone to clean out the pipes when i first mentioned it last March. A fontanero (Plumber) came and ripped it up, so now there's a hole in the floor. Chema says he is coming back...someday.

In other matters, we have very little counter space. It's the stove top and the top of the washing machine, which i pull out from the wall to create counter space. Chema has been leaving all sorts of cutting boards there that he never washes. They are vile. I wash them off before i use them. So i put them on the floor last night when i was making asparagus tri-color pasta. He picked them up off the floor and used them this morning without washing them. It's been three weeks since we mopped that.

To call him stupid is an insult to all of the other stupid people on the planet. If he were a child in ancient Sparta, knowing what i know, I would have thrown him off the mountain myself.

Perhaps it is a matter of what some before me have called, The Gringo's Burden. Perhaps it is my human duty to teach him how not to throw away forks <>. Or perhaps i should just poison him slowly. At this rate, he'll do it himself.

22:22

YEEE HOOOO!!!!!

La Fisio caliente said i can start to play. I have lots of exercises to do too, which is cool, because it will build up some muscle.

Most drummers have arms like tree trunks. I have buffalo wings.

But i am so happy to start playing. Maybe i won't poison Chema after all.